Jersey Ads

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

Habs having a jersey ad, should be a criminal offence.

 

[norrisnick]

How can we voice our displeasure?

1. Smash the front windows of a bunch of RBC outlets, or whoever your local sponsor is.
2. Write a letter? To who? I wrote a little thing in to La Presse last night.
3. Don't watch games or buy merch, but that's a super passive way to do things and only works if you're organized at scale.
4. How would you even begin organizing a demonstration? It's unclear to me who has the platform to reach the fans of your local franchise en masse.

This pollutes the core product, and a carefully honored symbol that represents your community for anywhere from 50 to 100 years for most of us (recent expansions maybe less so, but....) It seriously tarnishes these franchise's capacity to be a positive symbol -- which is all they're really good for, in the end. Anyone can host a hockey game, and the top 10,000 players in the world are all about as entertaining to watch as the top 700. So this is about saving an institution that's come to mean a lot to a lot of us. The most powerful piece of subnational iconography on the continent, really, along with the other big sports franchises. I don't want to see just a skating advertisement every time I turn on the NHL, and if I do, I'm increasingly likely to turn it off. I'm advertised out. I've invested 25 years of care into these teams meaning something in my community(ies), and I hate to see it become just a crass commercial.

Arguing this point is a hill I'm willing to die on.

That isn't even remotely close to being true. And that not being true is why the NHL has any significance at all.

Habs having a jersey ad, should be a criminal offence.

Given the province I'm almost shocked it's not.

 

[Gunnersaurus Rex]

I doubt that, maybe non authentic, but I doubt that too.
Since it’s called “authentic “ then they will have them.


They’ll have them, once the current stock runs out.

If that's the case. a little sewing seam ripper can fix that up.

 

[Golden_Jet]

If that's the case. a little sewing seam ripper can fix that up.

Probably glued as well.

 

[haseoke39]

Given the province I'm almost shocked it's not.

We're having an election right now. Seven parties and none of them have locked down my vote, just saying.

 

[norrisnick]

We're having an election right now. Seven parties and none of them have locked down my vote, just saying.

Bring it up at a townhall or something (if they have those). Get the candidates on the record about it.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

looks like one of the badges I earned at boy scouts

Those players probably earned their badges opening their first RBC Leo's young savers account.

 

[ProfessorMcFatty]

A few folks have said "if you hate the ads so much, just don't watch". I can already say that I've turned off a few games because the ads were too distracting. They now have ads on:

- The boards​

- The ice​

- The glass​

- The scoreboard​

- Helmets​

- Jerseys​

- In the stands​

- On the building​

- In the play by play​

Even the power play, replay, etc. are "Xcel Energy Power Play."

I'm only one fan, but I have to imagine that at least a few others will stop paying to watch something crammed full of ads.

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[TwineSniper]

Is it really so different than say, when a team hosts the all star game? Or if they celebrate a major anniversary?

After market logos are plastered on jerseys during these? They have nothing to do with the original jersey, or the history. You could almost say it's a marketing ploy just to get people to buy the latest jersey model.

I know I fell for it for all the Canadiens 100th anniversary stuff.

Other major sports have started doing it (NBA) and the fact of the matter is the NHL trails behind ALL the other major sports leagues in terms of money and revenue.

This outrage from people is hilarious. Literally getting mad over money being spent or given that you never would have given, and never would've gotten.

My point stands. I couldn't care less. I care about the team and the product on the ice.

and yes...my opinion would probably change if they start looking like the European leagues.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

A few folks have said "if you hate the ads so much, just don't watch". I can already say that I've turned off a few games because the ads were too distracting. They now have ads on:

- The boards​

- The ice​

- The glass​

- The scoreboard​

- Helmets​

- Jerseys​

- In the stands​

- On the building​

- In the play by play​

Even the power play, replay, etc. are "Xcel Energy Power Play."

I'm only one fan, but I have to imagine that at least a few others will stop paying to watch something crammed full of ads.

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I have. And I don't even bother going to watch Leaf games live anymore because of this.

 

[Golden_Jet]

A few folks have said "if you hate the ads so much, just don't watch". I can already say that I've turned off a few games because the ads were too distracting. They now have ads on:

- The boards​

- The ice​

- The glass​

- The scoreboard​

- Helmets​

- Jerseys​

- In the stands​

- On the building​

- In the play by play​

Even the power play, replay, etc. are "Xcel Energy Power Play."

I'm only one fan, but I have to imagine that at least a few others will stop paying to watch something crammed full of ads.

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I'd say the jerseys and ice annoy me the most.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

I'd say the jerseys and ice annoy me the most.

I couldn't believe the league removed the playoffs logo inside the bluelines so they could transpose digital ads onto the ice this past playoffs. Even worse was the ads were jittery, making it look even worse.

 

[Zur En Arrh]

Each post is written by an individual believe it or not, HFBoards is not a hivemind.

Bwahahahaha... It's the most hivemind place I've ever been,aside from Twitter...

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

New York Red Bulls? They're literally named for the sponsor.

Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen ....

 

[ProfessorMcFatty]

As someone mentioned, the jersey ads feel like slapping a McDonald's logo on the flag. I want to watch the Minnesota Wild, not the Minnesota Wild brought to you by the Brawndo Corporation. Otherwise, the worst ads are anything digital. It reminds me of the days before Google.

 

[ThankGord]

Bwahahahaha... It's the most hivemind place I've ever been,aside from Twitter...

Lol sure, nobody ever argues on HFboards, everyone shares the same opinion and works together.

 

[Suntouchable13]

That RBC patch on the Habs uni is God awful and does not belong. All ads like that make any jersey very amateur.

 

[Bombshell11]

A few folks have said "if you hate the ads so much, just don't watch". I can already say that I've turned off a few games because the ads were too distracting. They now have ads on:

- The boards​

- The ice​

- The glass​

- The scoreboard​

- Helmets​

- Jerseys​

- In the stands​

- On the building​

- In the play by play​

Even the power play, replay, etc. are "Xcel Energy Power Play."

I'm only one fan, but I have to imagine that at least a few others will stop paying to watch something crammed full of ads.

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i'm with you

f**ads, never ever support someone who or something that lives on ads, their product is most likely shite.

 

[timorous me]

That RBC patch on the Habs uni is God awful and does not belong. All ads like that make any jersey very amateur.

The amateur-ness of this is actually a good point. I always used to see the crazy amount of ads at minor league baseball stadiums and think, Well, yeah, they're a small-time operation and need all the money they can get. And then you see smaller European hockey leagues and know that they don't have the revenue that the NHL does, so okay, gross but understandable.

So when you get the NBA and now the NHL doing it, to me it does demean the league and the product and make it seem more minor-league. The league and teams don't need this money; they're doing very well as it is. Shouldn't it be sort of a status symbol, like a mark of pride, that they're big-time enough to not need to put ads on uniforms?

 

[ProfessorMcFatty]

The amateur-ness of this is actually a good point. I always used to see the crazy amount of ads at minor league baseball stadiums and think, Well, yeah, they're a small-time operation and need all the money they can get. And then you see smaller European hockey leagues and know that they don't have the revenue that the NHL does, so okay, gross but understandable.

So when you get the NBA and now the NHL doing it, to me it does demean the league and the product and make it seem more minor-league. The league and teams don't need this money; they're doing very well as it is. Shouldn't it be sort of a status symbol, like a mark of pride, that they're big-time enough to not need to put ads on uniforms?

Couldn't have said it better.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I was never in support of this concept, but I didn't realize just how much I would dislike it until I saw the Habs jersey.

I get that this is a business, I get that it's inevitable that everything gets sold at some point. But that jersey still means something to a lot of people, something well beyond the commercial product produced by the NHL, and it's just not right to turn it into a billboard for ad sales. This really has crossed a line in a way that I didn't expect until I laid eyes on it.

 

[Coffey]

They could have done this, like the Capitals did.
But RBC are probably too f***ing blockheaded and proud to reduce their logo to a red color.

 

[Gluten Free Breadman]

I, personally, am never buying anything from any company that advertises on an NHL jersey and I, personally am never going to buy an NHL jersey with an ad on it.

I hope you do the same.

 

[Quinning]

Horrendous. We all knew it was coming.

 

[SirJW]

Greenpeace asks fans to paint RBC logos on new Habs jerseys black

Greenpeace is protesting the Montreal Canadiens' decision to put the logo of one of the world's largest fossil fuel-financing banks on its jerseys.

montreal.ctvnews.ca